Iran has completed installing three advanced IR-6 centrifuge cascades at its Natanz fuel enrichment plant, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency report to member states on Wednesday seen by Reuters.
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Tehran has also informed the agency it planned to install an additional six IR-2m cascades at the facility in a new operating unit, the report said.
The report comes as senior Iranian, US, and European officials arrived in Vienna for talks this week to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
"On our way to Vienna to discuss returning to full implementation of the JCPOA," European Union coordinator Enrique Mora tweeted on Wednesday.
He will be joined on-site by Iranian chief negotiator Ali Bagheri. "Heading to Vienna to advance negotiations," Bagheri wrote on Twitter, saying the ball is in Washington court.
US envoy Robert Malley also announced his trip to the Austrian capital, "Our expectations are in check, but the United States welcomes EU efforts and is prepared for a good faith attempt to reach a deal." Echoing Tehran's warnings, he said, "It will shortly be clear if Iran is prepared for the same."
Indirect talks between Iran and the US began in April 2021, and have stalled since March this year.
According to official in Jerusalem, nuclear talk efforts are unlikely to result in a breakthrough this time around.
"The renewal of the nuclear talks is a desperate attempt the Iranians and the Europeans to wring water from stones. We don't see much progress happening in the talks, and the fact that the Europeans sent a relatively junior representative is a sign of this," a political source told Israel Hayom.
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